The
NYT Book Review just named it one of the
5 best fiction books of the year. The AV Club
helpfully posted a video to show you what happens when you open it. Actually,
lots of folks posted videos to show you what happens when you open it.
Other folks raved in print about the author and his career.
The Comics Journal asked a dozen critics of the author's work to send in reviews;
this one focuses on the role of disability in the narrative.
This one notes the book "is in a very primary sense a comic about women and the private lives they lead, and it investigates more fully than any other comic I have ever read the way they age, fall in love, explore their sexuality, come to terms with compromises they’ve had to make as they’ve grown, accept their limitations, confront squandered ability, have children (or choose not to have children), marry (or stay single), and make sense of the world around them." You might find
Chris Ware's Building Stories worth a look or two. Or fourteen.
[more inside]
posted by mediareport
on Dec 19, 2012 -
28 comments
"[One] day around 1983, I saw an oversize magazine sticking out of the back of the bin with the word 'RAW' barely visible at the top. Hoping it was pornography, I pulled it out. Much to my disappointment, it wasn't, but I'd also never seen anything like it." - Chris Ware
An oral history of the seminal RAW Magazine:
Part One, Life Before RAW |
Part Two, Life After RAW [more inside]
posted by Alvy Ampersand
on Sep 7, 2009 -
13 comments
Quimby The Mouse. That is all. I have been a Chris Ware fan since 1990. More specifically, I have been a Quimby Mouse fan since 1990. This is a video Chris put together for This American Life for their spring 2009 event. The music is by Andrew Bird.
posted by PuppyCat
on May 5, 2009 -
40 comments
Have you checked
your humors today? Not the
gunky jelly stuff in people's
eyes, the
other kind.
Are you
melancholic,
phlegmatic,
sanguine, or
choleric? Are you a salamander, gnome, nymph or sylph?
Earth, water, air or fire?
Elf, Ninja, Pirate or Dwarf? (arrrr! buckets of blood! flagons of phlegm and barrels of black bile!)
If nothing else, the theory of humors adds to one's arcane vocabulary.
posted by Capn
on Mar 23, 2005 -
16 comments
Stupid google tricks: I was looking for links on Chris Ware, author of "
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth" and "
The Acme Novelty Library." See how I've cleverly included links to material on both those works? I found those links via Google, and they both include the words "Chris Ware" any number of times. But when I search for "Chris Ware"
per se on Google, I only get 11 links. . . and all of them are in German! Anyone got any explanation for this oddity?
posted by rodii
on Dec 30, 2000 -
22 comments
